--- description: Watching this will get you through the day and possibly through the week title: This Dog's Commitment to Keeping a Balloon Afloat Is Truly Admirable image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Dog's Commitment to Keeping a Balloon Afloat Is Truly Admirable by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 10, 2015 8:24 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 10, 2015 8:24 PM CUT Everyone, meet Rose. She’s a Boston Terrier who has a few incredibly admirable traits, including but certainly not limited to her boundless energy, her commitment and dedication, her ability to entertain herself and her wonderful showmanship. Rose covers a whole lot of ground as she dashes around a yard playing a very intense game of Don’t-Let-The-Balloon-Touch-the-Ground. She does it with great energy, dexterity and enthusiasm through the entire minute-and-a-half clip. The anchors at the Today Show were curious if this game is really as fun as Rose makes it seem, so they decided to play too: > [](https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/629643683802030080) Clearly, they just don’t bring the same level of enthusiasm as Rose. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3991477/boston-terrier-dog-plays-with-balloon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3991477/boston-terrier-dog-plays-with-balloon/"},"headline":"This Dog's Commitment to Keeping a Balloon Afloat Is Truly Admirable","datePublished":"2015-08-10T20:24:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:14.532Z","description":"Watching this will get you through the day and possibly through the week","url":"https://time.com/3991477/boston-terrier-dog-plays-with-balloon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3991477/boston-terrier-dog-plays-with-balloon/","name":"This Dog's Commitment to Keeping a Balloon Afloat Is Truly Admirable"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Meet Boo. Is This the Internet's Cutest Dog?","description":"Boo, a five-year-old Pomeranian with over 1.6 million followers on Facebook, has just released his first book","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/6qldqUSm/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2011-09-12T16:19:33.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/6qldqUSm.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3991477/boston-terrier-dog-plays-with-balloon/","duration":"PT1M34S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3991477/boston-terrier-dog-plays-with-balloon/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```